Apartments for Rent in Brookline, MA
91 active listings · updated September 4, 2026 · direct from local agencies, agents and owners
91 active listings · updated September 4, 2026 · direct from local agencies, agents and owners
These are live listings from the BrooklineApartments.com database, posted and updated in real time by the agencies, agents and owners who manage the properties. Every listing carries direct contact details — there is no call center in between.
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Averages below are calculated from currently active Brookline listings, not historical survey data, so they move with the market as inventory changes.
Brookline is a city of distinct squares, and rent, commute and character change sharply between them. Each link below opens live listings for that neighborhood.
The commercial heart of Brookline, where Harvard Street meets Beacon Street and the Green Line C branch runs down the median. This is the densest rental market in town — apartment buildings and converted homes above a genuine main street of shops, restaurants, the Coolidge Corner Theatre and the S.S. Pierce building. If you want to rent in Brookline and live without a car, this is the first place to look.
Washington Square sits further out the C branch with a smaller cluster of shops and a quieter feel than Coolidge Corner at slightly lower rents. Brookline Village, on the D branch, is the oldest part of town and the closest to the Longwood Medical Area, which makes it popular with hospital and medical-school renters.
The long Beacon Street corridor carries much of Brookline's purpose-built apartment stock — solid pre-war buildings with elevators, hardwood floors and a trolley stop every few blocks. It is the most reliable place in town to find a conventional one- or two-bedroom apartment rather than a condo.
Large single-family homes, the Country Club and the reservoir. Rentals are scarce and skew to condominiums and units in larger houses; this is also the part of town where a car becomes close to necessary, since transit thins out south of Route 9.
The pocket closest to Boston, bordering Fenway and the Longwood hospitals. Rents track Boston more than the rest of Brookline, and demand runs on the hospital and academic calendars.
Brookline is a landlord's market for most of the year, driven by Harvard, MIT and the Kendall Square employers. The practical consequences are worth knowing before you start.
Brookline holds more purpose-built apartment stock than most towns of its size, concentrated along the Green Line's C and D branches. Away from those corridors the town is largely single-family and rentals thin out quickly, so which street you search matters more here than the town-wide average suggests.
Brookline's public schools draw families, while the Longwood Medical Area draws residents, fellows and students to the north end of town. Those two forces pull in different directions — larger units on quieter streets for one, smaller units near the C and D branches for the other — and they peak at different times of year.
Coolidge Corner, Brookline Village and South Brookline are genuinely different markets. Use the neighborhood links above rather than searching the whole town at once.
Expect to provide proof of income, references and identification, and to be ready to move quickly on a unit you want. Students without income history are often asked for a guarantor. Because listings here come straight from the agency or owner, questions about requirements can be answered by the person who actually controls the unit.
The Green Line C branch runs the length of Beacon Street and the D branch serves Brookline Village, Brookline Hills and Reservoir, putting most of the town within a short ride of Kenmore, Copley and downtown. Brookline is highly walkable in its northern half, and the town's overnight on-street parking restrictions are strict — confirm parking arrangements before signing if you keep a car.
BrooklineApartments.com is showing 91 active Brookline apartments as of September 4, 2026. That count reflects live inventory and changes daily as units are listed and rented.
Across active listings, studios average $2,587, one-bedrooms $3,006, two-bedrooms $3,482, and three-bedroom or larger units $5,448.
Yes. Listings marked no-fee can be filtered directly from the search links on this page, and you contact the landlord or licensed broker from the listing itself.
Every listing includes direct contact details for the agency, agent or owner responsible for the unit, so you can ask questions, arrange a viewing and apply without an intermediary.
Renters priced out of Brookline commonly look at Somerville, Allston, Brighton and Watertown, all of which share transit and are within a short commute.
Brookline is a town of roughly 63,000 residents bordered on three sides by Boston, which gives it an unusual character — city density and transit in its northern half around Coolidge Corner and Beacon Street, and quiet suburban streets in the south. It is known for its public schools, its Green Line access, and a housing stock that mixes substantial pre-war apartment buildings with single-family homes.
Useful local references: the City of Brookline, its residential parking permit information, and Walk Score for Brookline.
BrooklineApartments.com has listed Greater Brookline rentals since 1995. Brookline listings come from hundreds of licensed agents, agencies and property owners who update inventory through our own platform, which is why the counts and averages on this page reflect what is genuinely available today rather than a monthly snapshot.